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DevOps automation, cloud-native platforms, Red Hat, and AI agents — from the Level Up team.
In Level Up’s experience, there are two kinds of teams who oversee cloud cost management: the ones who are constantly refreshing their billing dashboards, and the ones who already know how the story ends this month, because they wrote the FinOps script. We're helping our clients become the latter ki
Read more →Over the past several years, Level Up has had the privilege of supporting some of the most forward-thinking organizations in their automation and cloud journeys. Along the way, we’ve seen firsthand how transformative public cloud platforms like AWS®, Azure®, and Google Cloud® can be, unlocking agili
Read more →If you're using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), chances are your automation estate isn’t static. Teams grow. Infrastructure expands. Workloads shift across clouds and datacenters. Often, AAP customers can benefit from the convenience of simply applying their username/password in the Setti
Read more →Background As you probably already know, Level Up loves containers and all things cloud native. Preparing for a certification exam like Red Hat's EX188 (primarily focused on a high-level overview of Red Hat OpenShift/Kubernetes, as well as Podman, Skopeo, and Buildah practical skills) is about more
Read more →The Level Up team saw a question recently around how to reverse-engineer an Ansible playbook, in order to try to validate it and then modify it for one's own purposes. Upfront, we'd generally recommend a good-better-best approach to unraveling anybody else's Ansible code (much of this can be applied
Read more →Level Up is proud to have been featured recently in a Red Hat® partner case study, which showcases some of our customer project experience supporting cloud offerings such as Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) on AWS. As highlighted: "Level Up, a Red Hat Premier partner, provided Red Hat Ansib
Read more →Since a number of our customers have had questions for us about the recent announcements around AWX [https://www.ansible.com/blog/upcoming-changes-to-the-awx-project/], we wanted to share our views on the current/future state of the AWX project as of Q4 2024, and make sure that everyone is making a
Read more →An early milestone for an Ansible developer is when you first begin mixing your traditional playbooks with roles. As you'll see in this post, one of the most effective ways to get the many benefits of roles, without sacrificing the straightforwardness of your playbooks– especially in terms of being
Read more →Tuesday 11/19: Level Up Workshop: Automate Windows with Red Hat® Ansible Automation Platform (4 hours) Register now: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/qcyVIAO/levelupansible20241119 Join us virtually Tuesday, November 19th, 2024 at 1pm Eastern Time for this Red Hat® and Premier Partner Level Up
Read more →Who among us hasn't ever needed to download a larger file like an ISO or tarball onto their laptop via a browser, just to upload it via scp or WinSCP to a server somewhere far, far away– all because of the source website's authentication requirements? Even in our modern world of multi-gigabit home I
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